Sebastian Bach has accused Michael Sweet of having "a big fucking mouth" after the STRYPER frontman said a teenage female singer "smoked" Bach with her version of a classic SKID ROW song. The latest war of words began when Sweet shared a video on Facebook of 16-year-old emerging artist Moriah Formica perfoming the SKID ROW ...

The idea is simple. Use creativity and collaboration to create change, to do good… and to raise money for a worthy cause. Longtime admirers of each other's work, the members of Grammy-Award-winning rock band LINKIN PARK and fashion designer and artist Blaine Halvorson of MadeWorn have come together to collaborate on a special project to ...

Metal Wani editor in chief Owais "Vitek" Nabi recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Mille Petrozza of German thrash metal veterans KREATOR. You can now listen to the chat below. Speaking about the five-year gap between 2012's "Phantom Antichrist" album and the upcoming "Gods Of Violence", Mille said: "It didn't seem that long, to be ...

Ultimate Jam Night, the long-running weekly free music show held at the famed Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California, will turn its upcoming Tuesday night edition on November 29 at 8 p.m. PST into a "thank you" for David Bowie, featuring a list of highly acclaimed musicians. The event will be broadcast worldwide ...

Bassist Peter Iwers has decided to leave Swedish metallers IN FLAMES "to pursue other endeavors." He says in a statement: "As a result, this current U.S. tour will be my last one with IN FLAMES, so if you are around, come and say hi. "It has been almost 20 years of fun, and I am ...

KATATONIA, the Swedish purveyors of dark progressive rock/metal, have announced they will be heading out on a headline tour of North America in March and April 2017 to support the release of their latest studio album, "The Fall Of Hearts". Founding KATATONIA member and guitarist Anders Nyström comments: "We did three North American tours in ...

In a brand new interview with Myglobalmind, EXTREME frontman Gary Cherone spoke about how performing the band's "Pornograffitti" in its entirety in 2015 to celebrate the LP's 25th anniversary influenced the songwriting process for EXTREME's next effort. He said: "I think it had an effect with Nuno [Bettencourt, guitar] on some of the ...

Holland's FaceCulture recently conducted an interview with drummer Ian Haugland of Swedish hard rockers EUROPE. You can now watch the chat in three parts below. Speaking about the EUROPE songwriting process, Haugland said: "What we try with every new album is to actually not repeat [ourselves], but to look at the back catalog ...

Publisher Heel Verlag Gmbh has set a December 20 release date for the new MOTÖRHEAD hardcover book "Röadkill: Victory Or Die" by Pep Bonet. The book's official description reads: "Celebrating Lemmy Kilmister's 70th birthday along with the 40th anniversary of his band MOTÖRHEAD, the lavishly illustrated volume presents exciting and intimate behind-the-stage pictures by much-acclaimed ...